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NEW YORK (AP) After incorrect or unprovable statements made by Republican President Donald Trump and some White House aides, one truth is undeniable: Sales of George Orwell's "1984" are soaring.
Orwell's book isn't the only cautionary tale on the Amazon list. Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel about the election of an authoritarian president, "It Can't Happen Here," was at No. 46. Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" was at No. 71.
Sales also were up for Hannah Arendt's seminal nonfiction analysis "The Origins of Totalitarianism."
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blm
(113,091 posts)get the soaring sales into more headlines.
We can donate them to schools and libraries if we want to pass them on.
brewens
(13,620 posts)radio before. Diamond Dogs has always been one of my favorite albums of his, so I have heard that song hundreds of times. I know the dude that runs that station and I really don't have to ask. I know he pulled that out and put it on the play list because of Trump.
It's actually my biggest bitch about that particular classic rock station. He doesn't go deep enough playing some really well known, but lesser cuts from the greats. One of those classic rock stations where typically, you could listen to it for a couple of weeks and hear about all they are ever going to play. So when something like that pops up, it gets your attention.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)question everything
(47,534 posts)If only all these activities can be translated to real change of government